LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Canoe
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—While the life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3), on temporary duty at the station, was on show for the local life-boat day, on the 2nd of August, 1957, the coxswain was told that a canoe had capsized a mile and a...
Picquigny
CABIN CRUISER TOWED INTO HARBOUR Walmer, Kent. At 5.38 on the morning of the 28th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red rockets had been seen two miles off shore east of the look-out. The life-boat Charles...
Vengla
Margate, Kent. At 5.35 on the afternoon of the 8th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was ashore on the Last Sands four and a half miles west-north-west of the coastguard look- out. When it was...
A Motor Boat (3)
LEAKING MOTOR BOAT At 4.17 p.m. on 13th July, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a white motor boat off South Stack was in trouble.
There was a slight sea with a gentle southwesterly breeze. The tide had been...
Janorma
Southcnd-on-Sea, Essex - At 10.10 p.m. on nth December, 1966, a small vessel was seen to be in distress about one and a half miles west of the pier. The lifeboat Greater London II (Civil Service No.
30} was launched at...
Cieszyn
MARCH 20TH. - COVERACK, CORNWALL.
During the evening the honorary secretary of the station and the coxswain had under observation a steamer which was approaching from the east, as aeroplanes could be heard in the distance...
The S.S. Pink Rose
Nov. 2ND. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
At 4.15 A.M. the motor life-boat At 4 A.M. the St. Anthony coastguard reported that a vessel was in distress about four miles S.S.E. of the life-boat station. A southeasterly gale was...
An Aeroplane (12)
APRIL 1 5TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN.
An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but only oil and wreckage were found.
Two bodies had already been picked up by a patrol vessel. - Rewards, £4 7s....
An Aeroplane (152)
SEPTEMBER 20TH. - HOLYHEAD , ANGLESEY, AND PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An R.A.F. Anson trainer aeroplane had come down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards : Holyhead, £5 ; Porthdinllaen, £13 6s.
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A Small Motor Fishing Boat
On the 1st July two men went fishing in a small motor boat, but got into difficulties, and at 9.38 P.M. the Coastguard received information from a civilian—to whom they had previously arranged to signal if necessary—that the boat was in dis-...